Rila Monastery
After Romania, I visited Bulgaria. I stayed in Sofia and did a day trip to Rila Monastery.
It’s an old church and is a world heritage site. The monastery is really beautiful.
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After Moldova, I took the bus to Suceava in the north of Romania.
The northeast of Romania is known as Moldavia and is still a rural area where you can see lots of horses and buggies on the road. The area is also home to painted monasteries that have beautiful frescos.
Then I travelled to Transylvania, a [...]
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I ate pizza in a country that doesn’t exist.
After Ukraine I visited Moldova. There’s not a lot to see inside the main part of Moldova, but there is Transnistria.
Transnistria is a self-proclaimed independent republic. There was a civil war in Moldova in 1992 and more than 500 people were killed.
Transnistria has its own borders and [...]
Ukraine
I only stayed a couple of days in Belarus and then took a night train to Kiev in Ukraine.
(Where are all these countries? Here’s a map)
Kiev has a lot of nice churches, but I found it a difficult city to navigate and not a particularly friendly city.
Ukraine and Belarus bore the [...]
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After Lithuania, I went to Belarus, one of the last surviving communist countries. It’s a dictatorship where the KGB is still active and spies on people.
Minsk was almost totally destroyed during the war and had to be completely rebuilt. 25% of Belarus’ population died in the war.
Belarussian currency isn’t the easiest to deal with. There [...]